The Lotw Diary- 2 Days After The Embarrassment
Well, I did predict it. I didnae want it to happen but I did predict it. Soulless, charlatans and dare I say it cheats? Plenty of the hordes gave the darkside 32 hard earned pounds to witness a team that couldnae give a stuff aboot us. Yes, it was meaningless game in the grand scheme but it was a pointer to the failings and the mindset of the modern fitbawer.
I don’t mind losing. In fact it’s part of the game. I want champagne fitbaw but I know that disnny happen all the time. I know that sometimes the best teams get beat. Hey, the wee fella always has the chance. But getting beat withoot an ounce of effort and professional pride, getting beat making the same mistakes over again and getting beat so easily, so meekly, so cudnae gee a flying monkey in really what is the only important game in the meaningless ones left is not on.
Nostalgia is something. And while it gives you a rose tinted view of the past on Saturday it was one of the worst Celtic performances I have seen in all ma times watching glesga derbies. I’ve seen poor players gie a lot more for the hoops than the 11 on the park on Saturday. Champions? On paper, yes in the heid nae just pampered modern day rich big egotistic loons.
When all of us were getting it tight on Saturday night, the players where probably oot on the lash spending the win bonus for winning the league. For them that’s job done. They have done their bit. Professional pride? No interested that disnny make them money. Winning a game at ipox when the job is done? No interested again the win bonus is neglible compared to winning the Scottish Cup.
While the h*ns were embarrassing us wie their embarrassment of the future, oor players didnae care what we felt. It’s just another example of the every expanding chasm between the players and fans. The fact the club treats us as consumers only add to the disposable image we have.
Makes you wonder why do we bother? We make these guys, rich and heroes only for them to cheat us. We have won the league the Scottish cup is now not looking like a formality. That was the most galling thing aboot Saturday. Dunfermline has hope due to the ineptitude of the management to raise the player’s game and the players taking their eyes of the baw.
Yes, I understand leg weariness, loss of form and yes I understand that we done the hard work months ago. But a bit of effort eh? Or will that cost another 5 grand a week?
Maybe, I’m just scunnered wie the mindset of the modern fitbawer.
Forza The Hoops
I don’t mind losing. In fact it’s part of the game. I want champagne fitbaw but I know that disnny happen all the time. I know that sometimes the best teams get beat. Hey, the wee fella always has the chance. But getting beat withoot an ounce of effort and professional pride, getting beat making the same mistakes over again and getting beat so easily, so meekly, so cudnae gee a flying monkey in really what is the only important game in the meaningless ones left is not on.
Nostalgia is something. And while it gives you a rose tinted view of the past on Saturday it was one of the worst Celtic performances I have seen in all ma times watching glesga derbies. I’ve seen poor players gie a lot more for the hoops than the 11 on the park on Saturday. Champions? On paper, yes in the heid nae just pampered modern day rich big egotistic loons.
When all of us were getting it tight on Saturday night, the players where probably oot on the lash spending the win bonus for winning the league. For them that’s job done. They have done their bit. Professional pride? No interested that disnny make them money. Winning a game at ipox when the job is done? No interested again the win bonus is neglible compared to winning the Scottish Cup.
While the h*ns were embarrassing us wie their embarrassment of the future, oor players didnae care what we felt. It’s just another example of the every expanding chasm between the players and fans. The fact the club treats us as consumers only add to the disposable image we have.
Makes you wonder why do we bother? We make these guys, rich and heroes only for them to cheat us. We have won the league the Scottish cup is now not looking like a formality. That was the most galling thing aboot Saturday. Dunfermline has hope due to the ineptitude of the management to raise the player’s game and the players taking their eyes of the baw.
Yes, I understand leg weariness, loss of form and yes I understand that we done the hard work months ago. But a bit of effort eh? Or will that cost another 5 grand a week?
Maybe, I’m just scunnered wie the mindset of the modern fitbawer.
Forza The Hoops
posted by Keving at Tuesday, May 08, 2007
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Six- I felt that way myself after the game. Why are we bovvered when the players aint? I for one forgot all aboot them and the disappointment they caused on Sunday and yesterday.
They didnae deserve ma attention. But they do now.
Again it boils doon to performances. Winning ugly placates losing badly is un-putable.
Thing is R*nger are built on statistics and love quoting them while the hoops were built on a ethos and a way of playing. Something that stats canny match.
Yer right it has been lost.
Ian- I expect to see changes on Saturday. In fact I will only go if wee ginge states there is going to be changes.
Baldy- the experiment quote bugged me but playing that system which we have done over the last few weeks is not an experiment. It’s not like playing the goalie at RB or something like that.
The manager was hung oot to dry by his players and for once I felt some sympathy for him. Not much as he has made mistakes mind you. He is looking more and more like MON in his last season. Stubborn and lacking ideas.
Seven- agree in someway but when the manager disnny trust the natural striker we have sitting on the bench the thing is his hand is forced to play 4-5-1. but what he thought KM would do when he came on only he knows…
I also mention the long hopefully hoofed baws on Friday. Not a guid tactic.
Ian, again- 3 players oor manager is quoted as saying he wants. 3 creative big box office signings who can change games wie one flick of a boot. Is Scott McDonald that type of player?
Martin was only stating the obvious, he must read LOTW.:-)
Underdogs for the cup……I like that.
People who can change games are difficult to find and the English market is about to be out of our range. Get ye to Kaunas, Gordon!
Dunfermline seemed to have 4 forwards on last night, how about an experiment like that?
I can understand Naka and Aiden being tired or weaker at this time of the season but replacements should be readied. Teddy Bjarnason is a candidate at least. I`ll miss this game because of a wedding, should I be disappointed? Of course I am!
I think that the system is okay but the opposition are always set up to counteract it and our flair players are looking washed out. Still time to sort it out for the 26th!
For me every game is important, there should be no such thing as a meaningless game for Celtic.
Last season's Shearer testimonial for example, I was raging when we contived to give away a penalty to actually lose the game. I think that's when it finally hit home to me (I'm a bit slow sometimes) that the way we are nowadays just ain't the same.
It dis ma nut in (to quote Jim Craig from his Ch67 commentries) when we go to the States and Poland and Japan to "promote the brand" and play like numpties.
Why does it dae my nut in?
Because, like big Jock said, the most important thing is the fans.
Fans like you and me for whom, like it of not, Celtic is like family (or the nearest thing to it) and we are part of that family. We are proud and rightly so, and we don't want to be embarrassed.
I don't want Celtic going to places if they are not going to meet certain standards.
And I don't want players who are earning what they do, to come off the park without having fought for every ball.
We used to say 'Celtic don't play friendlies', now we're playing testimonial fitba at Ibrox.
Something is far wrong and it won't be easily fixed, if ever.
I love that `Celtic don`t play friendlies ....` except for the truth of it!
Ian- Aiden and Naka were poor, not helped by an inept midfield due who were more cannon and ball than morcombe and wise. But why did it take until 78 mins for Aiden to be replaced?
And off course I will be there on Saturday….
Six- shearers testimonial I turned over thinking we had won the game only to find oot later we had lost…shocking fitbaw’s harlem’s globetrotters are we.
Japan was the perfect example. Sending a shadow side across there to basically disgrace Celtic’s brand. Poland was early in the season 1st games etc and there was rustiness. The States was a disgrace where or inability to create and score was highlighted early doors and still not sorted.
Thing is the mantra it’s only a friendly now is the coaching buzzword. They make the players unprofessional by using this mantra.. they take them lightly so do the players.
I would rather see young laddies busting a gut trying to prove themselves then overpaid canny be arsed experienced pro’s. in fact if the young bhoys failed at least we would get effort.
Thing is when the friendlies come round again which numptie will be up at 2 or 3 in the morning watching them….
Me and senior baldy for starters moaning at the TV, which is why I will be so pee-ed off when the same thing happens under WGS.
The mindset was 'generally' not there when MON was manager. Even under Dr. Jo we put in a performance of sorts in the friendly I attended at Rugby Park for Ray Montgomeries Testamonial in which Big Morton did his cruciate and Colm Healey made his debut.
Hate it, but after last year I think we had better get used to it while WGS is the manager.
Funny thing is I can't remember his Cov team having the same mindset even when they were playing the only 'team in blue' I ever would pay to watch - the mighty (but sadly defunct) Valley Sports Rugby.
I was at that Killie game too. I`m sure that the Celts played nice football in that game. I got my foot caught behind one of those Lilliputian seats in the Killie stand. I thought I was on a Ryanair flight. :-)
Funny we start talking aboot friendlies and last night i was told we are going to being Newcastle at St James Park sometime towards the end of July.
Then this morning Talksport resident "Tim" Alan Brazil says we are going to be playing Spurs at the new Wembley.....
And the numptie here goes to Mrs G i fancy going to one of them....
that should be playing Newcastle not being newcastle....
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